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by lurker17 15y ago
"someone ought to benefit from it. " Why the link poster and not the destination shopping site? It's quite possibly a violation of affiliate agreements as well, since it's not promoting the link, it's, well, skimming affiliate revenue.
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by lurker17 15y ago
But now you've got a period in the middle of your sentence.
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by lurker17 15y ago
A safe 777 is hard to build, but a safe orbiter is an order of magnitude harder, with respect to the range of velocity, temperature, and pressure that the vehicle endures. It's not a totally fair comparison to say "Boeing can do it, why can
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by lurker17 15y ago
There is an obvious difference between "unknown vulnerabilities" and "known vulnerabilities"
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by lurker17 15y ago
Is the article's bogeyman description of RSUs accurate at all? My understanding was that an RSU was equivalent an option priced at $0. The issue is the exercise date, not option-vs-RSU. Lots of public companies (Amazon, Google, etc give a
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by lurker17 15y ago
Snapjoy doesn't give people freedom, it just takes over from Flickr. Flickr gives people more freedom, by letting users download their files.
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by lurker17 15y ago
CyanogenMod allows the user to remove specific permissions frmo specific apps. If more users used CyanogenMod, more app developers would become compatible.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Impressive (but not surprising if you know him), that RMS has positive words for RMS with respect to the usage of the word "hacking" (the topic at hand), even while reiterating his opposition to Facebook as a product. A baser would mind wou
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by lurker17 15y ago
Hmm, my body's strongest urges are definitely pro creation.
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by lurker17 15y ago
No one said consumption is "bad". All that's said is that consumption is dependent on "production", and "production" gets its value from "consumption" (even the producer ends up being the only consumer). That wonderful book you read? It was
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by lurker17 15y ago
Why do you have yellow strikes through all the key words?
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by lurker17 15y ago
Obviously, ESR is talking about hacker users, and "Company X" is talking about hacker employees.
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by lurker17 15y ago
I read this technique in the Pragmatic Programmers' "Agile Web Applications with Rails" 5 years ago. It was already standard then.
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by lurker17 15y ago
> because he had essentially zero extracurriculars. You have no way of knowing how true that is. Distribution of talents (as you mention) among the applicants, and luck (a larger factor every year that the US population grows but the fi
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by lurker17 15y ago
Causation is measure of the extent to which they contain different information. Assuming a college wants to admit a student with high "intelligence" or intellectual potential, which cannot be measured directly. If high income causes high
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by lurker17 15y ago
That's not really needed, when the universities proudly proclaim their commitment to diversity and a well-"balanced" class, which of course requires uneven application of objective measures to different subpopulations.
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by lurker17 15y ago
"Waiting for Superman" is a thinly veiled ad for charter schools.
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by lurker17 15y ago
s/radius/arc length/
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by lurker17 15y ago
Euler's formula is a mathematical law, not a physical one. There is no proof that the Earth is perfectly round, and plenty of evidence to the contrary.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Pages 3 and 4 in the PDF. The redactions leave some questions, but the avaialble text directly confirms what smokinn and the Techcrunch article wrote.
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by lurker17 15y ago
It's low-end Goldman Sachs market-making. Tinman Sachs, maybe. Not extremenly different from panhandling. It's definitely abusive of the Craigslist community. Blah blah "price discovery is a service in a free market blah blah" does not appl
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by lurker17 15y ago
"The recent release of the big-budget Dick Tracy movie had been a disappointment" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_%281990_film%29 Budget $46 million[1] Box office $162,738,726 (worldwide) $60,611,000 (rentals) disa
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by lurker17 15y ago
Not at MIT it wasn't.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Less declasse to mention your degree? http://www.grumblemagazine.com/articles/crack/harvard/index....
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by lurker17 15y ago
> And I'm always gently disappointed to see URLs delimited by () and not RFC compliant <>. Choosing a bracket character that resembles a tag, for use in the case when you are definitively trying NOT to create an HTML tag, seems
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by lurker17 15y ago
> how would one know that when Urban Airship said they were excited to acquire SimpleGeo to continue improving the service that it was BS, and that the search for a replacement should have been started? As a reader of HN, one would expe
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by lurker17 15y ago
He's not saying that he "knows things in so much detail that he can't imagine wrongful analogies". He's saying that "magnetic force is different from anything you are familiar with", so you have to learn it as something new, not by analog
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by lurker17 15y ago
Are you saying that the computers are inferior to the books as a resource for "iteracy, knowledge, research, ideas and creativity"? Pound for pound, inch for inch, and dollar for dollar, the computers are better than the books.
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by lurker17 15y ago
"It is possible to achieve the feel of non-linear level design by taking a linear path and adding short offshoots." also called a "maze". "As with the other levels, there is a minimum amount of re-traversal required to get through this leve
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by lurker17 15y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/beef-taco-tar...

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